Originally posted by NickFitz
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(By the way, I am aware that the PAF's structure is slightly more complex than that, but for applying the PAF data to everyday situations in a way that can be understood by normal people, the schema I delineate is sufficient, though all the fields I list are necessary.)
Due to their insistence on doing the wrong thing, it became possible to use an automated process to get definitively correct data from the PAF, which was then horribly mangled when put into their database.
A series of ugly hacks were then imposed upon otherwise-elegant systems in an attempt to salvage something useful from the unholy mess.
Meanwhile, I moved on, and no longer had to deal with the consequences of that particular balls-up.
Until today
Due to their insistence on doing the wrong thing, it became possible to use an automated process to get definitively correct data from the PAF, which was then horribly mangled when put into their database.
A series of ugly hacks were then imposed upon otherwise-elegant systems in an attempt to salvage something useful from the unholy mess.
Meanwhile, I moved on, and no longer had to deal with the consequences of that particular balls-up.
Until today
You are working in my specialist area.
Please PM me so I can buy you dinner and bore you rigged my talking about me.
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